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Maud Hind <I>Roberts</I> Mifflin

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Maud Hind Roberts Mifflin

Birth
Verona, Boone County, Kentucky, USA
Death
6 Aug 1928 (aged 68)
Camden, Kent County, Delaware, USA
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Camden, Kent County, Delaware, USA Add to Map
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Maud, the eldest of nine children, was born to Henry Clay and Ann Elizabeth (Sleet) Roberts in Verona, Kentucky in May 1860, but moved with her parents to Owensburg, Indiana that fall. In about 1867, the family (now including two brothers) moved to Camargo, Douglas County, Illinois.
When Maud was about 15, she met a young man from Delaware, Sam Mifflin, who had come out west and set up a coffee shop that her father frequented. Sam and Maud soon fell in love, but Maud's father was against her marrying so young and threatened to send her off to a Catholic girl's school. Maud and Sam decided to elope. Soon after her 16th birthday, Maud put on her ordinary dress and bonnet over her good clothes and (with her mother's knowledge, but not her father's) caught the train headed to Indiana, which Sam was already on. They were married on June 29, 1867 in Parke County, Indiana. The next day they returned to Camargo to face Maud's father brandishing a pistol. However, when he saw and read the marriage license, he put the gun away - but did not speak to his son-in-law (and barely to his daughter) for the next 32 years. Then in 1908, following the death of his wife, her father came to visit and everybody got along just fine. Maud's father actually passed away while visiting her in 1918 from his home in South Dakota.
Maud and Sam lived in North Murderkill Hundred (Camden), Kent County, Delaware for the rest of their lives and had two children, Walter (b. 1877), who died at age 16 from tuberculosis, and Florence (b.1879), who became Mrs. Ezekiel Hunn III.

Maud, the eldest of nine children, was born to Henry Clay and Ann Elizabeth (Sleet) Roberts in Verona, Kentucky in May 1860, but moved with her parents to Owensburg, Indiana that fall. In about 1867, the family (now including two brothers) moved to Camargo, Douglas County, Illinois.
When Maud was about 15, she met a young man from Delaware, Sam Mifflin, who had come out west and set up a coffee shop that her father frequented. Sam and Maud soon fell in love, but Maud's father was against her marrying so young and threatened to send her off to a Catholic girl's school. Maud and Sam decided to elope. Soon after her 16th birthday, Maud put on her ordinary dress and bonnet over her good clothes and (with her mother's knowledge, but not her father's) caught the train headed to Indiana, which Sam was already on. They were married on June 29, 1867 in Parke County, Indiana. The next day they returned to Camargo to face Maud's father brandishing a pistol. However, when he saw and read the marriage license, he put the gun away - but did not speak to his son-in-law (and barely to his daughter) for the next 32 years. Then in 1908, following the death of his wife, her father came to visit and everybody got along just fine. Maud's father actually passed away while visiting her in 1918 from his home in South Dakota.
Maud and Sam lived in North Murderkill Hundred (Camden), Kent County, Delaware for the rest of their lives and had two children, Walter (b. 1877), who died at age 16 from tuberculosis, and Florence (b.1879), who became Mrs. Ezekiel Hunn III.

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  • Created by: Carol
  • Added: Nov 21, 2012
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/101104398/maud_hind-mifflin: accessed ), memorial page for Maud Hind Roberts Mifflin (8 May 1860–6 Aug 1928), Find a Grave Memorial ID 101104398, citing Odd Fellows Cemetery, Camden, Kent County, Delaware, USA; Maintained by Carol (contributor 47967360).